David Mitchell
THE BONE CLOCKS
2015
2015
‘Life is a terminal illness’, says the character of Hugo Lamb in David Mitchell’s latest work The Bone Clocks that was also recently long listed for the Man Booker Prize.
Reviewed by: Vasundhara Sirnate
Mehr Afshan Farooqi
Ahmed Ali (1908–1994) is better known in the English-reading world as one of the founder members of the Progressive Writers’ Association in 1936, as one among the four of the (in)famous Angaray group.
Reviewed by: Asma Rasheed
Nikhil Govind
The figure of the youthful revolutionary is the space, both fictional and historical, real and metaphorical, from which the concerns of this book arise.
Reviewed by: Rosinka Chaudhuri
Dennis B. McGilvray
Dennis B. McGilvray in his book Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka, ex-plores the ethnography of the Eastern region of Sri Lanka, originally inhabited by Tamil Hindus, Moors, small number of Sinhala chena cultivators and Vedda hunters.
Reviewed by: Gulbin Sultana
Minna Thaheer
Reconciliation in post-war scenario is a complex process which involves genuine efforts by multiple stakeholders, not just the state to build a peaceful society.
Reviewed by: Samatha Mallempati
Isabella Tree
In Kathmandu we discover, all the stories of the past are suffused with myth, and legends run circles around historical facts.
Reviewed by: Semeen Ali